To Need or To Want

Dust off an old one...

To need or to want
Do not debate me
I said I needed you
You said you should be wanted

To need someone
Is to inherently want her
To want someone
Does not mean you need him

I need air to breathe
I need water to drink
I need what makes me live
I wanted what I needed

You wanted a new home
You wanted a new cause
You wanted a new persona
You wanted what you did not need

When you lectured me
Saying you shouldn’t be needed
But that you should be wanted
I knew I no longer needed you

Now
Answer me this
Do you still need what you want?
Or have you realized you want what you need?

Heaven and Earth

Come with me
I've seen where Heaven and Earth collide
Step lively
For the sun is hovering low

We walk a trail only I have tread
But each step is new
God willing
The view will not

I hear only my footsteps
I stop
Turning, hoping to see you following
You're not
Then I remember you're already there

I only see my shadow
Which is longer than my soul

Head down
I climb on
Short of breath
Almost at my end
Yet, pleased

There
In the distance
Heaven and Earth as one

And you
In the foreground
Expecting
Holding our son
Waiting for me to come back to you

Is it hope?
Is it pain?
I fear in the waning light
They may both be the same

Autumn Moon

Of late, my dreams have been extremely vivid and I have been remembering every detail. Last night, I dreamed of strolling through a field with Analee very late in our lives, and while we walked hand in hand, I recited a poem to her:

Autumn Moon

In the light of the Autumn Moon
Your heart spoke to me
Whispered sweet secrets of a future
Beyond outstretched fingers
Yearning for a home
Where we reaped a harvest
Of smiles and giggles
From mouths that would one day
Be haggard and worn
When we were but a branch of a tree
With our memories long forgotten
Yet I will remember where to find you
Beneath the light of the Autumn Moon